I recently had the honor of talking to Dr. Gerard Casey, an eminent libertarian philosopher, about the intense debate over the nature and powers of political authority in Stuart and Cromwellian England. Reading a passage from John Lilburne and describing the Putney Debates in the New Model Army, Casey shows how that past debate is still alive in the present. John Fowke, the subject of my thesis, connects to everything and everyone we discussed.
Drachinifel on John Fowke, Gunpowder Supplier to the Revolutionary Merchants of London
Before putting the finishing touches on my thesis project, I reached out to Drachinifel, the number one naval affairs YouTuber, to ask how important Fowke was to his faction of merchants in London. As Drach says, a gunpowder supplier was “incredibly valuable” to shipping merchants at a time when the royal gunpowder monopoly was not producing anywhere ne…
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